Dont believe the anti-Trump medias fishy narratives on the Iran talks

Much of the media, and at least some government insiders who collude with them in pushing dubious narratives, want you to believe President Donald Trump is breaking with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu over Iran negotiations; expect such lies to get louder and more self-assured the longer those talks drag on.The two nations’ interests aren’t identical, nor are the two leaders’ — but reports of a growing divide are mainly an effort to create one.

Take the Axios story claiming Trump screamed at Bibi the other night for fighting back after Hezbollah launched fresh attacks on Israel: We hear the friction was in fact two-way, after Trump posted something suggesting Israel had agreed to do nothing while a Netanyahu tweet seemed to indicate full-scale fighting was back on.OK: The president confirmed to our own Miranda Devine that he called Bibi “effing crazy,” but also gave key context: “I like Bibi a lot, and I work very well with him”; this was a blip in relations between “a wartime president” and “a wartime prime minister.” In reality, Jerusalem is limiting its counterattacks, while Washington understands that the IDF can’t do nothing when terrorists are firing rockets at civilians; wartime allies work this stuff out.Meanwhile, these same media interests (and their favored sources), love nothing more than to treat the endless bluster from various Iranian figures at face value, when most of it means nothing at all because none of them are the actual decision-makers in Tehran.“Reports” that the Islamic Republic is refusing to end the war without $1 trillion in reparations, an end to all sanctions, international recognition of its right to unrestricted uranium enrichment and toll-power over the Strait of Hormuz add up to nothing: Washington won’t agree to any of it, and Tehran lacks the power to impose its will.Iran doesn’t dare let the war re-open in full, though it’s willing to keep the cease-fire stalemated while it digs out of some ...